Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace, co-authors of “A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the ‘Mexican Drug War,’” trace the history of the war on drugs from prohibition in the early 20th century to the militarization of police forces today Story Transcript NADIA KANJI, TRNN: Welcome to the Real News Network. […]
Author Archives: Carmen Boullosa
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets and playwrights. The prolific author, who has had literally scores of books, essays and dissertations written about her work, has been lauded by critics on several continents.
Boullosa has also had a distinguished teaching career - holding visiting appointments at San Diego State, Georgetown, La Sorbonne (Alfonso Reyes Chair) - and has lectured at Brown, Princeton, Irvine, UCLA, and institutions in England (Trinity College at Oxford), Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and elsewhere.
In 2001, she came to New York as a fellow of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers, and decided to spend more time in the city. In 2002-2003 she was Visiting Professor at NYU (holding the Andres Bello Chair). During 2003-2004 she was Visiting Professor at Columbia. From 2004 to 2011, she was a Distinguished Lecturer at City College, CUNY.
Since 2005, she has co-hosted the CUNY-T.V. the NY EMMY award winner Nueva York, in which she interviews major Spanish-speaking writers, artists and intellectuals.
In 2007 she co-founded Cafe Nueva York, a group of writers who work in Spanish and live in New York, dedicated to reclaiming the forgotten legacy of their forebears who also wrote in Spanish and lived in New York. She was a consultant to Nueva York, a major exhibition to be mounted by the New York Historical Society, on the 400-year history of New York's relations with the Spanish-speaking world.